Differences: Thatcher vs. Reagan, British vs. American conservatives
Interesting.
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It’s not enough to banish smoking, now we won’t hire smokers
Here’s the story: In small but growing numbers, employers in recent years have been refusing to hire smokers, arguing that coaxing tobacco users to quit with free cessation programs or cash incentives hasn’t worked. Some medical experts back the bans, … Continue reading →
Lenin, Dostoevsky, and me
[NOTE: The other day I happened across an old post from March of 2009. As I read it, I realized that I was probably describing one of the earliest manifestations of my change experience, even though I wouldn’t have called … Continue reading →
I’m shocked, shocked!
Now let me get this story straight: Mother Jones has reported the contents of a clandestine tape made of a private meeting between Mitch McConnell and a few aides, who were planning to use Ashley Judd’s somewhat sketchy mental health … Continue reading →
Now that they’re not compulsory…
…membership in Wisconsin’s public sector unions has fallen significantly. Quelle surprise! More: There is an important lesson here: not only did Scott Walker’s reforms strike an important blow for employee freedom, they also had the happy side-effect of depriving the … Continue reading →
RIP Annette Funicello
[Hat tip: commenter “Artfldgr”] The news of Margaret Thatcher’s death today eclipsed this news for me. But to those of a certain age, Annette (we were on a first-name basis) was a formative figure in our childhood. I never was … Continue reading →
Thatcher and “saving” the West
Bill Kristol has a piece in the Weekly Standard in which he writes: And now the last of them is gone. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II””three who won the Cold War and, it isn’t too much … Continue reading →
RIP Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher has died at 87 after a period of failing health. There are really not enough superlatives to describe her leadership, clarity, and strength of character. It’s very difficult to think of a person of her stature alive today. … Continue reading →
Constraining Obama
[BUMPED UP] I’ve got a new article up at PJ, entitled “Constraining Obama.” It’s about Obama (natch), the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and natural rights vs. legal rights.
Continue reading →Don’t mess with Thomas Klingenstein
As Barry Mills, president of Bowdoin College, learned: One day in the summer of 2010, Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, a respected liberal-arts school in Brunswick, Maine, met investor and philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein for a round of golf … Continue reading →
Not wild about Wild
I belong to a book group, as it seems about 99% of American women do these days. The books are more or less a pretext for getting together, talking, eating, and talking (did I say talking?). Sometimes I read the … Continue reading →
Obama: the legacy
Obama actually offers up a proposal that at least gives the appearance of being a compromise (entitlement cuts for tax raises), and the left gets angry at him, naturally: Progressive groups and lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), are blasting … Continue reading →